Did Powermonkey500 physically pull the 2nd card from his system when performing the single gpu tests? Just wondering because I noticed his gpuz validation shows PCI-e 8x, which he can't help during the crossfire tests but it would be a shame to deny himself the extra bandwidth in the single gpu tests.

No. I would have to drain my water cooling and replace some parts to do that. Not worth it.

Snagged sleeping dogs last night it seems it does take advantage of HT?
If games are really heading towards 6/8 threads does that mean the end of the i5? making the i7 the new i5... and intel bringing a 6 core to the main stream socket?
Anywho..

Its not the end of the i5, its just that Sleeping Dogs can take advantage of more than 4 cores. The i5 will be around for awhile, seeing this thread makes me wish 120hz monitors were cheaper so I could CF since I know now that the i5 wouldn't bottleneck.

No. I would have to drain my water cooling and replace some parts to do that. Not worth it.

Heh I understand. I was just looking at the subtle differences between the rigs. I was also trying to gauge the impact of Windows 8 vs Windows 7 but after looking at a bunch of Windows 8 performance reviews that seemed pretty insignificant too. I couldnt find any patterns that showed any of these games favored one OS or the other. Both you and Stoffie did some nice work here.

hokies, this may sound taboo for a number of us but are you saying that in some games quads can become a bottleneck? even if they are oc'ed, like yours, at 5GHz?

Mine has 8 threads.

It depends on the person i consider a cpu not being able to provide 120fps a bottleneck....

And so far the only game that can use 8 threads very heavy is Bf3..

Also there are games like Borderlands 2 that use 2 threads but bottleneck a Cpu like mine.. so right it is kind of a give or take.

Need to find some kind of statement from major game makers as to there goals for future gaming.. to see if it is multi threaded or strong single threaded games.

It kind of Also points at the I7s as the premo gaming cpu being able to match the strong single threaded performance of the i5 but also able to support the multi threaded games like the 8350.Edited by Hokies83 - 12/2/12 at 9:11am